Simulations reveal how a super-Earth near Mars could destabilise Earth's orbit and climate, jeopardising life.

A pair of planetary scientists simulated how our solar system might have evolved if it had a super-Earth orbiting where the ...

The essential ingredient for life, water, appeared on both planets around 4.4 billion years ago, new research indicates.

Google co-founder Larry Page made waves during a 2014 TED interview by suggesting he might leave his wealth to Elon Musk, citing Musk's Mars colonization ambitions. Page emphasized companies' ...

New research has uncovered what may be the oldest direct evidence of ancient hot water activity on Mars, revealing the planet may have been habitable at some point in its past.

The Mars rover, built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), has slowly scaled Mount Sharp since 2014. This mountain, ...

Back in 2007, I talked with Rob Manning, engineer extraordinaire at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and he told me something shocking. Even though he had successfully led the entry, descent, and ...

NASAs Viking missions sought life on Mars in the 1970s, but new insights suggest their methods might have unintentionally ...

An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of ...

A new study strengthens the theory that Mars’ magnetic field ... These pole reversals are also known to occur on Earth. Earlier work by Fu’s lab involved studying the Allan Hills 84001 ...

A trend has emerged among a small group of climate tech founders who start with their eyes fixed on space and soon realize their technology would do a lot more good here on Earth. Halen Mattison ...

Mars' magnetic field, which could have supported life, may have lasted longer than previously thought, a new study by researchers at Harvard's Paleomagnetics Lab in the Department of Earth and ...